As a NASCAR fan, you lose perspective over how many job losses hit the sport this year but there has been 700 highly educated mechanic, fabricators, and engineers who have been laid off. Don’t Check Up is a job search website just for NASCAR employees who have been let go during the recession. The back story is here.
The site is part of an unemployment task force, founded by former Lowe’s Motor Speedway president Humpy Wheeler and the North Carolina Motorsports Association, that attempts to assist displaced workers as well as keep them in the state.
“We’ve actually been working with the biotech industry, which has connections to fabrication jobs. Things in the medical device industry are real similar to racing, with the precision and time constraints and all that,” said Shawn Stewart, marketing and membership director of the NCMA. “We’re trying to promote these workers and what kind of value they might bring to a company that’s non-motorsports. Either they stay in another career path or come back to racing, but either way, if those jobs don’t come back, they’re still in the area and still employed.”
